AAA Supports Cruel and Abusive Ringling Bros Circus
AAA of Southern New England is promoting the cruel and abusive Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus by offering discounted tickets to its members. We have shared with AAA recent undercover footage of Ringling employees as they aggressively struck elephants with sharp, metal-tipped bullhooks on their heads, their ears, their trunks, and other sensitive parts of their bodies. Despite hearing that these highly intelligent and sensitive animals are prematurely ripped away from their mothers and forced to spend up to 26 hours a day in chains, AAA of Southern New England has refused to commit to never partnering with the circus in the future or end its current promotion.
By promoting Ringling, AAA is aligning itself with a business that prematurely rips baby elephants away from their mothers to force them to perform cruel and physically demanding tricks under the constant threat of punishment. In their natural habitat, elephants walk up to 30 miles a day and spend their time foraging for food and keeping close to their family units. In the circus, they are transported in poorly ventilated, cramped boxcars and trained through fear and domination.
Please contact AAA of Southern New England and help convince the company that this is one deal that it does not want to endorse.
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"Despite hearing that these highly intelligent and sensitive animals are prematurely ripped away from their mothers and forced to spend up to 26 hours a day in chains..."
26 hours a day? Wow... that sounds terrible and unprecedented. You would not be LYING about other claims, now would you?
Lol.
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
A rather obvious typo doesn't discredit someones position. That would be like rejecting anything Dan Quayle ever said because he misspelled potato.
And PETA 's claims are hardily "lies"
What they are referring to is an earlier report that they are kept in chains for 26 hours straight in unventilated box cars during travel. A lawsuit in March 2009 revealed that while that average is 26 hours, they can go chained for up to 100 hours at a time. Fun!
The USDA has shown that Ringling Bros. fails to comply with the Animal Welfare Act on numerous of occasions. Citing poor housing ; bad sanitation; and causing undue physical harm to the animals they keep. Did you see the July video (released by PETA) actually that showed Ringling Bros. employees literally beating an elephant with bullhooks all over its body, visibly drawing blood in many cases. The videos you can find on the internet of Ringling Bros. abuse of elephants are endless. Furthermore, in a district court the CEO confirmed that using electric prods are appropriate for elephant training and don't "hurt" the elephant. Yeah, obviously being beaten with bullhooks and electric prods, the ladder case sometimes drawing blood, over and over again have no pain involved. I wonder how they work so effectively in training then? Do they like being beaten with a bullhook ...? I'm sure the citation by the USDA for the rope lesions left on two infant elephants dragged away from their mother didn't hurt the baby elephants either. Nearly all of the elephants get osteoarthritis because of poor living conditions , and are thus euthanized because an arthritic elephant can't perform for the kiddies! In November 2008, a 1 ton underweight elephant (that's basically near death) was found by the USDA and immediately confiscated. And that's just the elephants, let alone the tiger abuse! I could go on and on.
The USDA has over six investigations opened currently against Ringling Bros. for animal abuses.
Ringling Bros. is a disgusting organization that has no place in the civilized world. I'd personally like to see this kind of crap outlawed entirely.
first of all on ringlings train there is a water stop every 4 hours whenever humanly possible. poor living conditions ??? elephants in ringlingn care live significantly longer than wild elephants, get your facts straight.unventilated box cars ??? they are heated/airconditioned that's why you dno't see vents. there are not really many train runs that last 100 hours or the show would not make it's 10 shows per week schedule. most train runs are 2 days max. again get your facts straight or quit outrght lieing.anyone wishing to find out the real truth go to the show pay your money to find out, or better yet get a job there like I did to find out.
"What they are referring to is an earlier report that they are kept in chains for 26 hours straight in unventilated box cars during travel. A lawsuit in March 2009 revealed that while that average is 26 hours, they can go chained for up to 100 hours at a time. Fun!
It is funny that PETA , in its zeal to be dramatic, obviously LIED about the facts of a case. What is not funny is that people treated animals poorly.
Attacking AAA is sheer stupidity. Charge the offending individuals and tell PETA to stop suggesting guilt be association like they do here, and like they did with PETland.
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.